Word: shin
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...held several posts in Chun's Cabinet. From 1984 to 1986 he was chairman of the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee. But until recently, his nomination for the presidency was by no means assured. Within Chun's inner circle, Roh vied for power with Prime Minister Lho Shin Yong and Chang Se Dong, head of the Agency for National Security Planning, successor to the KCIA. Of the three, Chang, also a former general, seemed to wield the most power. But two weeks ago, both Chang and Lho were knocked out of the race when Chun dismissed them from office as part...
...third setback for the government, the Supreme Court issued a ruling highly critical of Shin Bet, the domestic security service that only six months earlier had been cited for improprieties in the deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers. The court ordered former Lieutenant Azat Napso, 32, released immediately from prison, where he had spent 7 1/2 years on espionage and treason charges that were brought by Shin Bet but later found to be unsubstantiated. The conviction was overturned because the agency employed illegal interrogation methods and lied about them to the military courts that originally tried Napso. Attorney General Yosef...
...Seoul National University student, Park Chong Chul, 21, suffocated in January while police were dunking his head in a bathtub during interrogation. Last week that death, and the cover-up scandal that followed it, forced President Chun Doo Hwan to shake up his Cabinet. He dumped Prime Minister Lho Shin Yong, the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs and Chang Se Dong, head of the state security agency...
Earlier discoveries of Homo habilis fossils consisted only of skulls, teeth and questionable limb bones, forcing scientists to guess at the creature's size and proportions. But the dramatic new find, which includes skull, arm bones, thigh and shin fragments from a single adult female, permits a more accurate assessment. The length of the thigh bone is a gauge of height, and the relative length of the upper arm bone to the upper leg bone is a vital clue to body build. The remains, described in the British journal Nature last week, belong to a creature that lived about...
...pillbox hats and macrame belts? No way. All by its sassy self, the mighty mini has suddenly jumped to the fore of today's fashion scene. Dressed up in a variety of guises -- bubbled, tubed, tiered and flounced -- the thoroughly modern mini is competing hard with the billowy, prodigious shin- length skirts of the past few years. "Suddenly everybody is talking and worrying about it," says Italian Couturier Valentino. "That means the mini is here to stay...